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... conscious , intellecting ego is at work ; we are mostly intro- jecting and fantasying . If we are dealing with a masterpiece , we are likely to respond more at the conscious level of meaning and sig- nificance , less at the primitive ...
... conscious , intellecting ego is at work ; we are mostly intro- jecting and fantasying . If we are dealing with a masterpiece , we are likely to respond more at the conscious level of meaning and sig- nificance , less at the primitive ...
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... conscious content , the days , tend to be concentrated in the first four lines and in the intellectual and abstract words . The un- conscious content , the nighttime imaginings , occur in the vivid images , mostly in the second half ...
... conscious content , the days , tend to be concentrated in the first four lines and in the intellectual and abstract words . The un- conscious content , the nighttime imaginings , occur in the vivid images , mostly in the second half ...
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... conscious knowledge of meaning and myth . Our study of resonance and particularly the sometime lack of it suggest a much simpler explanation of the role of myth . The mere presence of a mythic parallel in itself enables us to re ...
... conscious knowledge of meaning and myth . Our study of resonance and particularly the sometime lack of it suggest a much simpler explanation of the role of myth . The mere presence of a mythic parallel in itself enables us to re ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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